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there's an wanted ad in mexico looking for at tratractive fema police officers. what's this about? >> yeah, you know, you've got to hear this want ad for the mexican pacific state. it has one of the more popular tourist destinations of acapulco. women ages 18 to 26 who are at least 5'5" and whose weight is proportional to that height must have good physical and mental health, knowledge of english is a plus. according to the public secretary is saying that the idea is to have a police force comprised of only women, prerch preferably beautiful ones. >>> we know today is going to be full of beer and barbecue for most of you so today's businessmen's special is for the health nuts. we will talk super foods after this quick break. ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >>> good morning. it's monday, the 4th of july. this is your "a.m. wake-up ca " call." i'm ali velshi. six people are missing after a charter fishing boat sank in bad weather off mexico's baja peninsula. there were at least two dozen american on the boat. the u.s. coast guard will be helping the mexican navy w
there's an wanted ad in mexico looking for at tratractive fema police officers. what's this about? >> yeah, you know, you've got to hear this want ad for the mexican pacific state. it has one of the more popular tourist destinations of acapulco. women ages 18 to 26 who are at least 5'5" and whose weight is proportional to that height must have good physical and mental health, knowledge of english is a plus. according to the public secretary is saying that the idea is to have a police...
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after hurricane katrina, the mainstream media piled on fema for its failure to respond to the crisis. and the federal government did a lousy job. but it was fox news that started reporting on the failure of the first responders, the city of new orleans and the state of louisiana to help people. yes, we reported fema's problems but we also told the other side of the story. >> jon: that's your example? you had a week to prepare an example and you came up with in 2005 everyone was (beep) on the republicans and we made sure they understood that local louisiana democrats (beep) too. i mean, just out of curiosity in your week of digging for that, did you find it on thursday or friday or was it broadcast news where joan sprinted in during the show countdown, "i found one." here's what i'll do. i'll find something. here's what i'll do. i'll find something maybe more from the recent past that i think tells the fuller story. it's not crazy. mother says i'm crazy to have these books but i don't think it's crazy. i think it's smart to have these books. here's one. here's one. brett bear's show. t
after hurricane katrina, the mainstream media piled on fema for its failure to respond to the crisis. and the federal government did a lousy job. but it was fox news that started reporting on the failure of the first responders, the city of new orleans and the state of louisiana to help people. yes, we reported fema's problems but we also told the other side of the story. >> jon: that's your example? you had a week to prepare an example and you came up with in 2005 everyone was (beep) on...
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currently fema's flood determinations are made independently by a fema adjustor allowing significant amount of room for subjectivity. i thank them for their flexibility but take a more formulated approach to flood events will provide increased certainty it our river communities. my amendment would also require fema to review the process for public -- providing for public notification of a flood event. when the missouri river started flooding earlier this summer fema was delinquent in reporting their flood in progress determination to the public. that determination was made june 1 but was not announced null june 6. for five days we had no way of knowing fema had made this determination, impacting policyholders and new homebuyers. we believe fema must look at the policies in place and make recommendations for a more objective and more precise determination process, along with public notification standards that will keep policyholders better informed. it's important to increase communication to the public. i encourage support of the amendment and yield back. thank you, madam chair. the
currently fema's flood determinations are made independently by a fema adjustor allowing significant amount of room for subjectivity. i thank them for their flexibility but take a more formulated approach to flood events will provide increased certainty it our river communities. my amendment would also require fema to review the process for public -- providing for public notification of a flood event. when the missouri river started flooding earlier this summer fema was delinquent in reporting...
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fema admitted they used infooror mapping methods for some portions. it forces many citizens into 500 or 1500 -- or 100 year flood mains. they have to buy costly insurance they may not mean. it runs $100 a year for the first year or two, but then it jumps to $50,000 -- to $5,000 annually. homeowners shouldn't get stuck with this bill, these extraordinary costs, when it may be a mapping area when the agency admits they used infooror methods. they reinstate the technical mapping advisory council. this bill works to bring the national flood insurance program out of the red while allowing communities more local input on their flood plans and time to adjust should they be designated a high risk area. i urge my colleagues to approve the rule and the underlying bill so we may change this program in a fiscally -- fiscally responsible and born way. the speaker: the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: i appreciate the gentleman from oregon coming to speak about this bill and also his strong leadership in issues that deal directly with our nation and to keep us f
fema admitted they used infooror mapping methods for some portions. it forces many citizens into 500 or 1500 -- or 100 year flood mains. they have to buy costly insurance they may not mean. it runs $100 a year for the first year or two, but then it jumps to $50,000 -- to $5,000 annually. homeowners shouldn't get stuck with this bill, these extraordinary costs, when it may be a mapping area when the agency admits they used infooror methods. they reinstate the technical mapping advisory council....
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and fema evaluate the feasibility of voluntary community-based flood insurance. and, fourth, the bill reiterates fema's existing authority to purchase free insurance from the private sector as an alternative to the u.s. treasury and taxpayers serving as a backstop to nfib. and finally the bill addresses many of the concerns that members have raised with us about new maps, especially as they relate to the dam and levee dessertfications. it allows communities to suspend the requirement to purchase flood insurance while they work to construct or fix their flood protection systems. madam chairman, when congress created nfib, there was no flood insurance market. taxpayers were providing increasingly amounts of direct assistance to disaster relief to flood victims. without reforms contained in this bill, taxpayers will never be able to pay back the debt they are owed, homeowners and businesses will have limited or no access to flood insurance and congress will inevitably have to bail out flood disaster victims as it did prior to 1968. we cannot allow this to happen. th
and fema evaluate the feasibility of voluntary community-based flood insurance. and, fourth, the bill reiterates fema's existing authority to purchase free insurance from the private sector as an alternative to the u.s. treasury and taxpayers serving as a backstop to nfib. and finally the bill addresses many of the concerns that members have raised with us about new maps, especially as they relate to the dam and levee dessertfications. it allows communities to suspend the requirement to...
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fema has not been restored to their former cabinet-level status. they are still a part of the department of homeland security. the main difference of fema today, to go back to your idea of good government and high- performance government, what obama has done instead of appointing cronies like bush did, he went out and got the emergency management director for the state of florida. for the state of florida. he has a good respective -- perspective of what it is like to work with fema and now he is the head of it. that is the difference. good government is putting people in position to are competent and nknow when they ae doing. that got passed off to the first bush who just kind of let it flounder until 1992 when we had hurricane andrew. then there realized we are actually needed it. then you had clinton who also took it seriously. he appointed someone who made a professional organization. then bush 2 came in and was opposed to the idea of fema and appointed his cronies and then we actually need it again. host: we will leave it there. paul light. gue
fema has not been restored to their former cabinet-level status. they are still a part of the department of homeland security. the main difference of fema today, to go back to your idea of good government and high- performance government, what obama has done instead of appointing cronies like bush did, he went out and got the emergency management director for the state of florida. for the state of florida. he has a good respective -- perspective of what it is like to work with fema and now he...
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disaster response and preparedness, inside fema alone , inside fema alone we have 17 different programs. inside that one ancy which is part of the department of homeland security. i asked the question why? why has it been a priority for us to work on those? why would you do? a senator: would the senator be willing to yield for a colloquy? it may surprise the senator, i hope not. but it might surprise some people listening to this. mr. kerry: to hear from this have side of the aisle a lot of people here have enormous respect for what the senator has been talking about and fighting for and what he has achieved. and i might add he is one of those courageous senators who has come together in the last months, working months as part of the so-called gang of six, to try to bridge the gap here. and see if we can't find a way forward. and as i listened to him, there's an enormous amount of common sense in the questions that he's asking. these are questions all of us need to join into, and we need to join into them in a process that allows us to be able to fairly and in a balanced way work on the
disaster response and preparedness, inside fema alone , inside fema alone we have 17 different programs. inside that one ancy which is part of the department of homeland security. i asked the question why? why has it been a priority for us to work on those? why would you do? a senator: would the senator be willing to yield for a colloquy? it may surprise the senator, i hope not. but it might surprise some people listening to this. mr. kerry: to hear from this have side of the aisle a lot of...
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disaster response and preparedness, inside fema alone , inside fema alone we have 17 different programs. inside that one agency which is part of the department of homeland security. i asked the question why? why has it been a priority for us to work on those? why would you do? a senator: would the senator be willing to yield for a colloquy? it may surprise the senator, i hope not. but it might surprise some people listening to this. mr. kerry: to hear from this have side of the aisle a lot of people here have enormous respect for what the senator has been talking about and fighting for and what he has achieved. and i might add he is one of those courageous senators who has come together in the last months, working months as part of the so-called gang of six, to try to bridge the gap here. and see if we can't find a way forward. and as i listened him, there's an enormous amount of common sense in the questions that he's asking. these are questions all of us need to join into, and we need to join into them in a process that allows us to be able to fairly and in a balanced way work on the
disaster response and preparedness, inside fema alone , inside fema alone we have 17 different programs. inside that one agency which is part of the department of homeland security. i asked the question why? why has it been a priority for us to work on those? why would you do? a senator: would the senator be willing to yield for a colloquy? it may surprise the senator, i hope not. but it might surprise some people listening to this. mr. kerry: to hear from this have side of the aisle a lot of...
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fema was decimated. i do not believe that blackwater did it. now, blackwater has done a lot of things. i am not forgetting them. but blowing up a levee? i do not buy it. host: we will talk about that at another time. "greeting high-performance government, a once in a generation opportunity" at the wagner school of government, a professor paul light is the director and has been our guest for the last 45 minutes on "washington journal." thank you for being on the program. guest: it is the wagner school of public service. it has been a pleasure. thank you for the opportunity to host: -- opportunity. host: wagner.nyu.edu. we will see you tomorrow. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] cable satellite corp. 2011] . >> the senate was scheduled to take a week-long break for july 4, but majority leader read decided senators would return to continue negotiations on the debt and deficit. lawmakers need one week to draft a bill and get it through the house and senate. they will sta
fema was decimated. i do not believe that blackwater did it. now, blackwater has done a lot of things. i am not forgetting them. but blowing up a levee? i do not buy it. host: we will talk about that at another time. "greeting high-performance government, a once in a generation opportunity" at the wagner school of government, a professor paul light is the director and has been our guest for the last 45 minutes on "washington journal." thank you for being on the program....
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, with all the problems that we got all over the country now, floods and everything, fema's cut. they talk about border security. border protection and border security cuts. food inspections, that's just a small sample of what they had in that and then they're going to go after -- the next bill they have they're cutting medicare. all of those cuts -- and that's just the first $1 trillion. i yield to the gentleman. >> i was just going to say to my friend. over the course of the last 10 years, we know where the debt really came from. it wasn't in early childhood education, it wasn't in national parks, it was in two tax cuts, a couple of trillion dollars or more, it was in two wars, at least a couple trillion dollars. and it was in a crash on wall street, when people were laid off and had to have some kind of assistance. obviously you said arizona needed assistance, $6.4 billion an they still sold their capitol. mr. perlmutter: i'd yield to my friend from connecticut because he has the chart that describes it. >> thank you, mr. perlmutter, and thank you, mr. garamendi, for holding t
, with all the problems that we got all over the country now, floods and everything, fema's cut. they talk about border security. border protection and border security cuts. food inspections, that's just a small sample of what they had in that and then they're going to go after -- the next bill they have they're cutting medicare. all of those cuts -- and that's just the first $1 trillion. i yield to the gentleman. >> i was just going to say to my friend. over the course of the last 10...
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and any place else that there are fema funds or other federal dollars gone into an area. this training lasts forever. it will live beyond the financial fraud enforcement task force existence. >> my last question will start with the first-year report from the task force. "the establishment of the working group last year added the full weight of law enforcement community behind the recovery board's efforts." as a u.s. attorney out there in the field working very much on the front lines to prosecute fraud, regardless of the existence of the recovery act working group, would not the full weight of law enforcement already be behind investigating and punishing those who commit recovery act-related fraud. if not, then why not? >> in minnesota where we are, we have been keeping an eye on it. from a practical standpoint, the one thing that the financial fraud enforcement task force has done has really been to enhance communication between our offices and the ig's. and the fbi.ig's its enhance our communication between ig and the civil division. that's true at many u.s. attorney's
and any place else that there are fema funds or other federal dollars gone into an area. this training lasts forever. it will live beyond the financial fraud enforcement task force existence. >> my last question will start with the first-year report from the task force. "the establishment of the working group last year added the full weight of law enforcement community behind the recovery board's efforts." as a u.s. attorney out there in the field working very much on the front...
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an update on the fema trailers that set unused after some katrina victims fell sick due to formaldehyde in sight. the travelers are now being put to use. the government is giving the trailers to american indian tribes in rural oklahoma who need affordable housing. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> blackberry users, you can access our programming any time with this is a better radioapp, with four streams of our programming, commercial-free. if you can also listen to our signature -- signature interview programs. download it free. >> now available, c-span's congressional directory. inside, new and returning house and senate members, with contact information, including twitter addresses, district maps, and assignments. and, information on the white house, supreme court justices, and governors. order online. >> you are watching c-span, bringing you politics and public affairs. every morning, it is "washington journal" connecting with policymakers and journalist. we is, watch live coverage of the u.s. house. also, supreme court oral arguments. on the weekends, you ca
an update on the fema trailers that set unused after some katrina victims fell sick due to formaldehyde in sight. the travelers are now being put to use. the government is giving the trailers to american indian tribes in rural oklahoma who need affordable housing. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> blackberry users, you can access our programming any time with this is a better radioapp, with four streams of our programming, commercial-free. if you can also listen...
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in 2002, greg joined the department of homeland security as chief security officer for fema and he retired in 2008. mr. speaker, this nation and my community mourns the loss of a loyal friend, a respected leader and a dedicated public servant, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: thank you, sir. to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. while we were in recess on june 25, memphis lost one of its great citizens, bishop paterson jr. he was the grandson of the founder of church of god and christ. the cousin of the late bishop paterson. he was a public servant as well as a bishop and a revered citizen of memphis. he was my friend. we served together in the constitution convention in 1997. he served 20 years in the city council and was the first appointed mayor african-american mayor of the city of memphis. he was the leader in his church and he cared about his community,
in 2002, greg joined the department of homeland security as chief security officer for fema and he retired in 2008. mr. speaker, this nation and my community mourns the loss of a loyal friend, a respected leader and a dedicated public servant, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: thank you, sir. to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the...
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beyond that, fema doesn't do squat. fema does not come and rescue you. if people think that, get it out of your head. when they dial 9-1-1, it goes to a local fire station or police station. if it's a really big crisis, i guarantee you the local fire station and that local police department is going to be overwhelmed within about 12 hours. mutual aid and people will start back filling everything else. the point -- i want you to remember this. 300 plus people. who's going to come save you? unless you have your own personal firefighters. you are on your own. you are going a wonderful, magnificent job. making people realize you have a personal responsibility. it's not just to the family and neighbors. it's also too the firefighters that will show up and try to rescue you. if you are not ready and you haven't done what you need to do to take care of yourselves and that firefighter gets hurt or killed trying to do his job to take care of you, shame on you. you should have been more ready. yes, ma'am? >> how many employees of fema? do they have offices all ove
beyond that, fema doesn't do squat. fema does not come and rescue you. if people think that, get it out of your head. when they dial 9-1-1, it goes to a local fire station or police station. if it's a really big crisis, i guarantee you the local fire station and that local police department is going to be overwhelmed within about 12 hours. mutual aid and people will start back filling everything else. the point -- i want you to remember this. 300 plus people. who's going to come save you?...
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so what i want to do is i want to separate the concept of fema responding versus fema be training and exercising and helping those at the state level government learn it. i think there's a great role in that response, in that respect. i started out this whole discussion about some of the people in this room. there's a lot of expertise at the federal level that state and locals don't reach out to because we have taken -- and this is an editorial comment, clearly, it's editorial -- because we have taken the whole concept of response and recovery of how we deal with disasters both natural and manmade, or i'll throw in terrorism, and we have allowed terrorism to permeate all of that. so it has become a clash of cultures, in my opinion, a culture that says we have to stop, stop, stop terrorism. at all costs, we stop any act of terrorism. that's well and good. you're going to fail. you will fail. because you cannot even if you have a place state, you cannot stop acts of terrorism. ask the chinese, ask the malaysians, ask anybody. i don't care what form of government you have, you cannot sto
so what i want to do is i want to separate the concept of fema responding versus fema be training and exercising and helping those at the state level government learn it. i think there's a great role in that response, in that respect. i started out this whole discussion about some of the people in this room. there's a lot of expertise at the federal level that state and locals don't reach out to because we have taken -- and this is an editorial comment, clearly, it's editorial -- because we...
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dollars to fema for businesses but hooking you up with other resources that fema was aware of. did it feel more like a scavenger hunt or was there a menu of available resources that you could draw upon immediately in the days after the disaster? >> senator, thank you. and that is a follow-on to a response to senator blunt. we believe that there are a number of resources out there in the fema private-sector side. part of the problem for business and for us is advocates for business is that we really don't know what those are. and i think the best example of that is, when you think about our community, when you think about the residents of the community and the businesses and business owners in the community there is a period of time in there where everyone is essentially in shock. everyone is working very hard to recover, but it is so overwhelming and there is so much information overload, that goes on, that when we go to a business we found very early on when we would get to a business and say what do you need? they would just. >> shrugged. >> yeah. they did not know exactly wh
dollars to fema for businesses but hooking you up with other resources that fema was aware of. did it feel more like a scavenger hunt or was there a menu of available resources that you could draw upon immediately in the days after the disaster? >> senator, thank you. and that is a follow-on to a response to senator blunt. we believe that there are a number of resources out there in the fema private-sector side. part of the problem for business and for us is advocates for business is that...
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regent 6, fema regent 6 had a liaison in our fema management center from almost day one and we had jfo up and running very quickly and money out on the streets very quickly. and the last disaster, although it took quite a while to get the declaration, we got it on a friday evening and by monday, we already had individual assistance money out on the streets. so i think that's important to note. with that, mr. chairman, i'll be happy to take any questions at the proper time. >> thank you. and is it mr. womack? >> usually i say womack but womack works too. >> womack, that's great. thank you. >> good afternoon, chairman pryor and ranking member paul and distinguished members of the committee, i've been a senior employee of the mississippi emergency management agency since 2002 and of my state's ability to respond to large scale events and the federal government's response capability. as you are aware, the state of mississippi was greatly impacted by tornadoes, severe storms and flooding that occurred in april and mississippi river flooding that occurred in may. mississippi received two fed
regent 6, fema regent 6 had a liaison in our fema management center from almost day one and we had jfo up and running very quickly and money out on the streets very quickly. and the last disaster, although it took quite a while to get the declaration, we got it on a friday evening and by monday, we already had individual assistance money out on the streets. so i think that's important to note. with that, mr. chairman, i'll be happy to take any questions at the proper time. >> thank you....
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i don't think we ever got fema to do the declaration. we tried and tried and tried. it was frustrating because we could never get a real handle on what is the criteria, you know, who is saying no and why. it was difficult. so i'm curious to read the rest of the panel, to hear your perspective on that disaster declaration process. can we streamline it? can we make it more transparent or better in some way? i don't know if you firsthand experience with the. why don't we start with you and go on down the line. >> thank you, senator pryor. it's interesting you mentioned that snippet at the top are still working for governor beebe but i sat on the board on behalf of him with the other governors. one of the things we recognize turn the process, although we never received the declaration for several reasons and would try to mitigate as much as possible, david was leading the way and still does that today, a great job i might add. one of the things were able to do because the response framework that we had it not necessarily have structures in place, or programs in place to
i don't think we ever got fema to do the declaration. we tried and tried and tried. it was frustrating because we could never get a real handle on what is the criteria, you know, who is saying no and why. it was difficult. so i'm curious to read the rest of the panel, to hear your perspective on that disaster declaration process. can we streamline it? can we make it more transparent or better in some way? i don't know if you firsthand experience with the. why don't we start with you and go on...
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disaster response and preparedness, inside fema alone , inside fema alone we have 17 different programs. inside that one agency which is part of the department of homeland security. i asked the question why? why has it been a priority for us to work on those? why would you do? a senator: would the senator be willing to yield for a colloquy? it may surprise the senator, i hope not. but it might surprise some people listening to this. mr. kerry: to hear from this have side of the aisle a lot of people here have enormous respect for what the senator has been talking about and fighting for and what he has achieved. and i might add he is one of those courageous senators who has come together in the last months, working months as part of the so-called gang of six, to try to bridge the gap here. and see if we can't find a way forward. and as i listened to him, there's an enormous amount of common sense in the questions that he's asking. these are questions all of us need to join into, and we need to join into them in a process that allows us to be able to fairly and in a balanced way work on t
disaster response and preparedness, inside fema alone , inside fema alone we have 17 different programs. inside that one agency which is part of the department of homeland security. i asked the question why? why has it been a priority for us to work on those? why would you do? a senator: would the senator be willing to yield for a colloquy? it may surprise the senator, i hope not. but it might surprise some people listening to this. mr. kerry: to hear from this have side of the aisle a lot of...
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what it is fema does. fema does not show up and save your butt. it's still the local fire department that does that, and i think that's what you guys ought to be doing. >> okay. is that it? >> anything else? [applause] that was great. thank you. >> before michael leaves, i'm going to present him with a national press club mug, so in any tsa this is all you will need. [laughter] this is all you'll need to get you through. we so enjoyed -- >> [inaudible] >> it's great. we so enjoyed having you, thank you so much. it was just a wonderful presentation. there you are. good night, everybody. >> thank you all for coming out. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> that was michael brown, former director of the federal emergency management agencies. for more information visit michaelbrowntoday.com. >> it takes a behind the stacks look, says broadcasting and cable. the l.a. times calls it required tv viewing. and it solves some mysteries that even nicolas cage can't conjure. c-span's original documentary, the library of congress: behind the scenes of the w
what it is fema does. fema does not show up and save your butt. it's still the local fire department that does that, and i think that's what you guys ought to be doing. >> okay. is that it? >> anything else? [applause] that was great. thank you. >> before michael leaves, i'm going to present him with a national press club mug, so in any tsa this is all you will need. [laughter] this is all you'll need to get you through. we so enjoyed -- >> [inaudible] >> it's...
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the former director of fema is one of the authors along with ted shorts. who is in different during training? >> everyone. all levels of government or indifferent. the citizens were in different. at think the media was indifferent. we are all in different to the difference, all the different aspects of the crisis that came together. this is my perspective, the perspective of the last person, the only person who has talked about what happened, the guy at the center of the controversy. this is my perspective. >> what would you have done differently? >> the way we communicated. we always use as a phenomenon, the talking points. the talking points were accurate. the talking points were out of context. i just crumpled of those talking points and said, yes, we are doing x, y, and see, but that is not enough. two things would have happened. the media and public would have gotten in the cap and the administration would have said, oh, my gosh. we have to help of more the more we are doing now. >> second subtitle, the bush white house and the arms. how is it in diff
the former director of fema is one of the authors along with ted shorts. who is in different during training? >> everyone. all levels of government or indifferent. the citizens were in different. at think the media was indifferent. we are all in different to the difference, all the different aspects of the crisis that came together. this is my perspective, the perspective of the last person, the only person who has talked about what happened, the guy at the center of the controversy. this...
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now, fema didn't set those up. the bureaucracy didn't create those. we did. every one of these programs was created by a member of congress. so you can't blame administrations and you can't blame presidents. what you have to do is blame congress. we have 130 overlapping programs in the department of agriculture, 18 overlapping programs in the department of commerce, 230 overlapping programs at the department of education, 17 in the department of energy, 36 in the department of human services, 2 in the department of homeland security, 60 in the department of housing and urban development, 40 in the department of interior, 53 in the department of justice, 35 in the department of labor, six in the department of state and 180 governmentwide if you look at all economic development programs, 180. and we just listed the 88 that run through four of the agencies. is it any wonder that we're going belly up? and the problem is us. the problem is we've got a solution now that's come to us from the house and we're not going to let that solution go forward because politica
now, fema didn't set those up. the bureaucracy didn't create those. we did. every one of these programs was created by a member of congress. so you can't blame administrations and you can't blame presidents. what you have to do is blame congress. we have 130 overlapping programs in the department of agriculture, 18 overlapping programs in the department of commerce, 230 overlapping programs at the department of education, 17 in the department of energy, 36 in the department of human services, 2...
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inside fema, just for disaster response and preparedness, there is 17 programs just inside fema. that doesn't count all the disaster response and preparedness programs in all the other government agencies. that's just inside fema. you've got to ask the question what are we doing? one, what have we done in the past and what are we going to do about the problems that are in front of us today? so i would propose that we're off base and you have got a good reason to be anxious about us because we won't address these problems. when we bring amendments to the floor, they get routinely defeated. why is that? is it that we're being dishonest about the facts? or is it we're protecting the politicians so that they are not attacked by the very people that are benefiting indirectly -- not directly but indirectly from these programs, the bureaucracies and the other quasigovernmental agencies that feed off these programs. so where do you go to start fixing this $1.6 trillion deficit? i had some wonderful employees of the social security administration come to me about a year and a half ago, an
inside fema, just for disaster response and preparedness, there is 17 programs just inside fema. that doesn't count all the disaster response and preparedness programs in all the other government agencies. that's just inside fema. you've got to ask the question what are we doing? one, what have we done in the past and what are we going to do about the problems that are in front of us today? so i would propose that we're off base and you have got a good reason to be anxious about us because we...
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in your book at various points, there is a fema i would identify loosely as the decline. you cited the works of austal spencer, the decline of the west, you cite a given and the fall of the roman empire. you quote at the very beginning of the statement by henry kissinger about america's capacity to survive and prevail in this world and so i want to send it to you straight up somebody that is obviously very thoughtful and has done a lot of reading and thinking. do you think that america's decline in this world that you have described is likely and not what i'm asking the inevitable but given what you see today realistically would you say that we are on the downward slope? >> guest: definitely not. i think we have to recognize that there is a very strong strain of anticivilization, antiinternational border that goes back to the early modern age of the era and who says flat out there is no legitimate government anywhere except the revolution in an entirely new order, and i think that is inside like a virus emerging inside the present civilization we need to recognize, but re
in your book at various points, there is a fema i would identify loosely as the decline. you cited the works of austal spencer, the decline of the west, you cite a given and the fall of the roman empire. you quote at the very beginning of the statement by henry kissinger about america's capacity to survive and prevail in this world and so i want to send it to you straight up somebody that is obviously very thoughtful and has done a lot of reading and thinking. do you think that america's...
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after all, the play is about race relations and wickedness of slavery so fema reindell gup many southerners before the war and then after during the long period of jim-crow the purpose of the legalized segregation that lasts from the 1880s right to the early 1950's. many white supremacists during that era found uncle tom's cabin relief threatening. eda injured a small. most notably the popular southern author thomas dickson salles a uncle tom play and he wept he was so infuriated by what he saw as its endorsement of black power. he wrote bitterly of harriet beecher stowe a little yankee woman wrote a book a single act of her will will cause the war, kill men, desolate and ruinous out and change the history of the whole world. he responded to stowe by writing many best sellers and which he appropriated the character names and reversed them to create a processor and anti-black statement. one of the novels he wrote, best seller called the klansmen became the source of dw griffith's the birth of a nation , which was masterfully made in the sense that it was completely redefined what hollywood w
after all, the play is about race relations and wickedness of slavery so fema reindell gup many southerners before the war and then after during the long period of jim-crow the purpose of the legalized segregation that lasts from the 1880s right to the early 1950's. many white supremacists during that era found uncle tom's cabin relief threatening. eda injured a small. most notably the popular southern author thomas dickson salles a uncle tom play and he wept he was so infuriated by what he saw...
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public participation fema one. fema to. we've heard a lot the last few years. i know the bush and clinton administration heard this, too, about the difficulty of those who face rules that are not harmonized or consistent or forced to link closely with one another. it seems somewhat technical but if you are a small business facing the cumulative burden or something from one agency that fits poorly with something from another agency it might make life a lot harder. for the first time the president has specifically directed agencies to take steps to harmonize, simplify and coordinate rules, and if you follow the federal first my condolences, but second, you will notice there are explicit references to efforts undertaken to coordinate and simplify and harmonize. the relevant provision of the executive order, and happily for this conference is called integration and innovation because there's a clear recognition that innovation can be compromised if rules are redundant, inconsistent or overlapping and if you want to free up private-sector to innovate, we need to get
public participation fema one. fema to. we've heard a lot the last few years. i know the bush and clinton administration heard this, too, about the difficulty of those who face rules that are not harmonized or consistent or forced to link closely with one another. it seems somewhat technical but if you are a small business facing the cumulative burden or something from one agency that fits poorly with something from another agency it might make life a lot harder. for the first time the...
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public participation fema one. fema to. we've heard a lot the last few years. i know the bush and clinton administration heard this, too, about the difficulty of those who face rules that are not harmonized or consistent or forced to link closely with one another. it seems somewhat technical but if you are a small business facing the cumulative burden or something from one agency that fits poorly with something from another agency it might make life a lot harder. for the first time the president has specifically directed agencies to take steps to harmonize, simplify and coordinate rules, and if you follow the federal first my condolences, but second, you will notice there are explicit references to efforts undertaken to coordinate and simplify and harmonize. the relevant provision of the executive order, and happily for this conference is called integration and innovation because there's a clear recognition that innovation can be compromised if rules are redundant, inconsistent or overlapping and if you want to free up private-sector to innovate, we need to get
public participation fema one. fema to. we've heard a lot the last few years. i know the bush and clinton administration heard this, too, about the difficulty of those who face rules that are not harmonized or consistent or forced to link closely with one another. it seems somewhat technical but if you are a small business facing the cumulative burden or something from one agency that fits poorly with something from another agency it might make life a lot harder. for the first time the...
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exceptional some, the fema that is a very controversial, is in comparison with europe. but the whole, the dream and that other people would fall less has always been there and that is one of the articles or one of the essays, my last essay in the book is why america wants to spread democracy around the world. we want to do that from the very beginning. not necessarily send the troops, but by example, buy showing the world that we could do that. and that's what lincoln was all about in his mobilizing the north with the last best hope that could we survive, because the memorial was already backed. >> napoleon iii was in the new empire and so lincoln was appealing to that dream we had to keep hope alive. >> would they be saying hey, this should be happening quickly, or it took us time or many years as an enlightenment tradition they are not coming out of that tradition. >> they didn't have a single vision. someone like jefferson would be very enthusiastic and helpful. he had a unanimous view of human nature and people are naturally good hearted, he felt, just got rid of th
exceptional some, the fema that is a very controversial, is in comparison with europe. but the whole, the dream and that other people would fall less has always been there and that is one of the articles or one of the essays, my last essay in the book is why america wants to spread democracy around the world. we want to do that from the very beginning. not necessarily send the troops, but by example, buy showing the world that we could do that. and that's what lincoln was all about in his...
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now, fema didn't set those up. the bureaucracy didn't create those. we did. every one of these programs was created by a member of congress. so you can't blame administrations and you can't blame presidents. what you have to do is blame congress. we have 130 overlapping programs in the department of agriculture, 18 overlapping programs in the department of commerce, 230 overlapping programs at the department of education, 17 in the department of energy, 36 in the department of human services, 2 in the department of homeland security, 60 in the department of housing and urban development, 40 in the department of interior, 53 in the department of justice, 35 in the department of labor, six in the department of state and 180 governmentwide if you look at all economic development programs, 180. and we just listed the 88 that run through four of the agencies. is it any wonder that we're going belly up? and the problem is us. the problem is we've got a solution now that's come to us from the house and we're not going to let that solution go forward because politica
now, fema didn't set those up. the bureaucracy didn't create those. we did. every one of these programs was created by a member of congress. so you can't blame administrations and you can't blame presidents. what you have to do is blame congress. we have 130 overlapping programs in the department of agriculture, 18 overlapping programs in the department of commerce, 230 overlapping programs at the department of education, 17 in the department of energy, 36 in the department of human services, 2...
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fema steps in and helps out, with the governor making a request. the forest service helps out. there are burn area rehabilitation teams that move in right after a fire to try to protect the erosion and so there aren't bad floods. and we've got to try to do everything we can to make sure we maintain, once again in this deficit situation that we're in, that kind of responsibility. we've -- the federal government has to help. the federal government has to help in deficit, even within a deficit situation, we have to have a disaster relief kind of effort. and the idea that we're -- we are going to somehow change the way we do disasters now, that we're going to take money away from medicaid in order to put it into disasters, is-- i don't think, a very good idea. so i think when we talk about how we do disaster relief, we need to remember that we're all in this together and when we hit disasters, we need to help each other. and to show you the kind of pressure that we're under in new mexico, secretary vilsack, with the forest service, was out in new mexico and the one plea he made to
fema steps in and helps out, with the governor making a request. the forest service helps out. there are burn area rehabilitation teams that move in right after a fire to try to protect the erosion and so there aren't bad floods. and we've got to try to do everything we can to make sure we maintain, once again in this deficit situation that we're in, that kind of responsibility. we've -- the federal government has to help. the federal government has to help in deficit, even within a deficit...
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fema funds for their federal dollars gone into an area. this training must forever and they will live beyond the financial fraud enforcement task was distance. >> mr. jones, my last question will start with a first report from the task force, the establishment of the working groups last year added the full weight of law enforcement community behind the recovery board's efforts. as the u.s. attorney out there in the field, working very much on the front lines to prosecute fraud, regardless of the existence of recovery act working group, with the full weight of law enforcement already be behind investigating goals to commit recovery act and related fraud. and if not, why not? >> well, where we are in minnesota, we have been keeping an eye and peered the one thing from a practical standpoint that the financial fraud enforcement task forces that it's really enhance communication between our offices in the i.e. cheese and between aig and the fbi. .. that the task force shouldn't have a budget but i wonder if it wouldn't be worth -- i guess i wo
fema funds for their federal dollars gone into an area. this training must forever and they will live beyond the financial fraud enforcement task was distance. >> mr. jones, my last question will start with a first report from the task force, the establishment of the working groups last year added the full weight of law enforcement community behind the recovery board's efforts. as the u.s. attorney out there in the field, working very much on the front lines to prosecute fraud, regardless...
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we are working with the coast guard and with fema in puerto rico. in order to ensure, with jtf north that we are ensured to take on those actions because of the baseline flows that exist. >> mr. aguilar, and i appreciate your comments in regards to sheriff ogden who represents and has the county of yuma which is under control and i understand the other sheriffs, stupnick from nogales and i agree crime has lessened, if you will or illegal crossings have lessened, which is a good thing. that doesn't mean that it's under control and i know that there's been a general accounting office report testimony given that said that we had about 44% of operational control of the southwestern border and 44% of that, of course, is probably arizona. so we are feeling the pain. i think anybody that has read the newspaper or watched the news or listens, they realize that and it's not that we're not grateful for everything that's taken place, but somehow, some way, somehow we need to get better operational control of the border. >> absolutely. >> in arizona. and we tal
we are working with the coast guard and with fema in puerto rico. in order to ensure, with jtf north that we are ensured to take on those actions because of the baseline flows that exist. >> mr. aguilar, and i appreciate your comments in regards to sheriff ogden who represents and has the county of yuma which is under control and i understand the other sheriffs, stupnick from nogales and i agree crime has lessened, if you will or illegal crossings have lessened, which is a good thing....
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. >> dhs and fema with the black helicopters and the u.n masters are trying to establish a new world order with a one world government. >> you got me. what about the t ry-lateral commission. >> don't get me started. >> and i i don't -- >> is it called conspiracy? >> it is the quad raw lateral commission as far as i'm concerned. it has gotten that bad. >> it has. eco freaks mad at the beckhams for having four kids. i do agree that harper seven is a worse name than gallapagos freddy pinch face. the problem was it was a girl. if it was a boy you could have gone with that, but for a girl that would have been weird. second, i agree with you that population control is tierney 101. the so-called echo warriors are all part of fema's plan with their black helicopters and the harp and the u.n masters, and it is high time people like you started calling them out. >> how do you feel about the tri-lateral commission. >> don't get me started. >> i don't want you to keep harping on this because i don't want this to disappear. >> did you say harping? >> exactly. >> the employers check the social med
. >> dhs and fema with the black helicopters and the u.n masters are trying to establish a new world order with a one world government. >> you got me. what about the t ry-lateral commission. >> don't get me started. >> and i i don't -- >> is it called conspiracy? >> it is the quad raw lateral commission as far as i'm concerned. it has gotten that bad. >> it has. eco freaks mad at the beckhams for having four kids. i do agree that harper seven is a worse...
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. >>> santa cruz county was hard hit by storms last spring, but fema refused disaster aid. now the county and state that produced a video they hope will convince federal officials that aid is needed. this video was produced by cal ema and it shows how extensive the damage was, including that rock slide you saw and the extensive flooding. santa cruz county sustained about $19 million in damage. >> one thing to describe the impacts on paper and a letter, it's a different thing to show it on video, hear from the people directly impacted and see real world footage of the disaster happening before your eyes. >> the state is contesting a key point of fema's denial that the damage was caused by three separate storms. in the video, a national weather service meteorologist discusses how california was hit by what's called an atmospheric river and was one single event. >> all right, we're going to take a look ahead at our forecast for a morning and the rest of the week. >> highs across the bay area expand anywhere from 66 degrees in san francisco to 89 degrees in morgan hill. this is
. >>> santa cruz county was hard hit by storms last spring, but fema refused disaster aid. now the county and state that produced a video they hope will convince federal officials that aid is needed. this video was produced by cal ema and it shows how extensive the damage was, including that rock slide you saw and the extensive flooding. santa cruz county sustained about $19 million in damage. >> one thing to describe the impacts on paper and a letter, it's a different thing to...
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a $15 million fema grant helped the department pay for those rehires. >>> the woman whose burning body was found in oakland was a 21-year-old mother from union city. the body of monica was discovered in the rock ridge neighborhood early thursday morning. police say that she appeared to have suffered trauma before her body was burned. the homes empowerment program is holding a car wash this sunday at oakland's east lake y to raise money for the lady's funeral. and they want to set up a trust fund for her one-year-old son. contributions of the gay community are hoping voters will overturn that legislation. conservative organization based in sacramento called the capital resource institute filed documents today to start a voter referendum against that law. the group will have to collect nearly a half a million signatures to get it on the ballot. governor brown signed the bill into law yesterday. it is set to take effect on january 1. venal for the first time in six days, there was no meeting at the white house today among lawmakers trying to find a way to head off a u.s. government defaul
a $15 million fema grant helped the department pay for those rehires. >>> the woman whose burning body was found in oakland was a 21-year-old mother from union city. the body of monica was discovered in the rock ridge neighborhood early thursday morning. police say that she appeared to have suffered trauma before her body was burned. the homes empowerment program is holding a car wash this sunday at oakland's east lake y to raise money for the lady's funeral. and they want to set up a...
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. >> me ayudaron en dos ocasiones fema. las demÁs, me ha costado a mÍ en uno me costÓ refinanciar mi casa o para sacar dinero para volverla a reparar. y las prÓximas... de mi bolsa cuÁl. >> afirman que el problema es por un lago cercano. >> que nos ayuden, que tapen el lago, no sÉ. tienen que hacer algo. esto es cada aÑo. >> pero la realidad es que cuando cae tanta agua del cielo tan rÁpido no hay sistema de drenaje que pueda absorhaberla por lo que en distintos puntos calles fueron una trampa para coches que se quedaron, partes de autopista tuvieron que cerrarse e incluso iglesias como esta, quedaron literalmente bajo el agua. >> una intensa ola de calor que ha provocado 22 muertes se extendiÓ en el noreste del paÍs. causÓ cortes de electricidad debido al masivo uso de aires acondicionados. 50 de las 70 piscinas organizaron turnos para darle todo el mundo la oportunidad de refrescarse. y muchos residentes de nueva york acudieron a las playas en busca del chapuzÓn. ptbi ahora vamos a mÉxico donde el ejÉrcito s
. >> me ayudaron en dos ocasiones fema. las demÁs, me ha costado a mÍ en uno me costÓ refinanciar mi casa o para sacar dinero para volverla a reparar. y las prÓximas... de mi bolsa cuÁl. >> afirman que el problema es por un lago cercano. >> que nos ayuden, que tapen el lago, no sÉ. tienen que hacer algo. esto es cada aÑo. >> pero la realidad es que cuando cae tanta agua del cielo tan rÁpido no hay sistema de drenaje que pueda absorhaberla por lo que en distintos...
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they were reinstated thanks to a $15 million grant from fema. 49 firefighters were laid off last year. only 22 accepted the offer to return. 26 have found other jobs. san jose fire chief says the grant and additional staffing will improve service in the city. >> staffing here in san jose is bee will he what i believe it should be. if you look at community, popular and activity, demographics wex need meefr firefighters. >> the firefighters will go through an 8 week refresher course starting on monday. >> and there is still no agreement tonight on-to-raise the country's debt ceiling. the president held a news conference, challenging congress to do something fwoig reduce deficits. >> there is a unique opportunity to do something big wex have a chance to stabilize american finances for a decade. orp 15 years or 0 years. >> republicans will have offered serious proposals to cut spending. i think it's time for testimonies to get serious. >> and house republicans plan to vote on legislation tomorrow allow more boroughing if congress approves an amendment. some senate leaders are working on a
they were reinstated thanks to a $15 million grant from fema. 49 firefighters were laid off last year. only 22 accepted the offer to return. 26 have found other jobs. san jose fire chief says the grant and additional staffing will improve service in the city. >> staffing here in san jose is bee will he what i believe it should be. if you look at community, popular and activity, demographics wex need meefr firefighters. >> the firefighters will go through an 8 week refresher course...
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they got their jobs back thanks to a $15 million grant from fema. and 49 firefighters laid off last year, only 22 returning. the others have found other jobs. >> for a career like firefighting, it was worth taking a risk. and hopefully everything can work out, you know? for the best. but if you worry about the possibilities being negative then you know success is not going to come. >> less than a month ago there was a second round of layoffs announcing rolling brownouts taking an engine out of service. but with funding the fire chief says those brownouts could now be refuse deuced or eliminated. >> and layoff notices will go out monday to about 200 employees in san francisco court system. 40% of the staff. the layoffs taking affect in september giving workers 60 days notice and will force 25 courtrooms to close. state cuts have left the san francisco qourts a $14 million deficit. the presiding judge says there will be a severe impact and has called a news conference for monday morning. >> smoking ban in san francisco in place for years but a change
they got their jobs back thanks to a $15 million grant from fema. and 49 firefighters laid off last year, only 22 returning. the others have found other jobs. >> for a career like firefighting, it was worth taking a risk. and hopefully everything can work out, you know? for the best. but if you worry about the possibilities being negative then you know success is not going to come. >> less than a month ago there was a second round of layoffs announcing rolling brownouts taking an...
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the new class at academy was made possible by grants from fema and homeland security. the funding ensures they will be back on the job for two years. they are expected to return late next month. >> chlorox turned down a take over bid. the company said his offer is to low. it is the largest share holder. they are adopting a measure so other share holders can fight off the bid. he has suggested they look to shopping to competition. >>> borders plans to close all stores in united states after nobody stepped forward to buy them. the company said it'll can a judge on thursday to go ahead with plans to liquid ate stores starting friday. employ borders was the second largest bookstore chain in the united states. >>> on wall street stocks fell on concerns of the detect showdown. the dow dropped 94 points, the nasdaqoff 24. >> major layoffs at a giant. what workers said as they left the south bay campus. >> clouds have rolled back. coming up, whether they will stay for tuesday and where we expect temperatures to be warmer. immaterial professional baseball? marin? it could happe
the new class at academy was made possible by grants from fema and homeland security. the funding ensures they will be back on the job for two years. they are expected to return late next month. >> chlorox turned down a take over bid. the company said his offer is to low. it is the largest share holder. they are adopting a measure so other share holders can fight off the bid. he has suggested they look to shopping to competition. >>> borders plans to close all stores in united...
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fema denied the governor's disaster declaration. the state appealing that decision and using this documentary to help in its case. fema has 30 days to respond. >>> it looks like getting a job in california isn't getting any easier for some. the long-term jobless rate is edging up in the golden state. in fact, it's the fastest growing segment among california's more than two million people who are out of work. more than 700,000 people haven't worked for over a year now. most have run out of benefits or will very soon. california employment leaders say they've seen firsthand how frustrating it is for people who want to work but haven't been able to find a job in a long time. >> first of all we try to make sure that they're well aware of the social services available within their own communities. but we encourage them as well to come into centers like this one where we can kind of assess their skills and maybe gets a sense for if -- get a sense for if they might need to shift gears, transfer skills to something similar where there is m
fema denied the governor's disaster declaration. the state appealing that decision and using this documentary to help in its case. fema has 30 days to respond. >>> it looks like getting a job in california isn't getting any easier for some. the long-term jobless rate is edging up in the golden state. in fact, it's the fastest growing segment among california's more than two million people who are out of work. more than 700,000 people haven't worked for over a year now. most have run...
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> almost two dozen san jose firefighters will return to the department today thanks to a grant from fema and the homeland security department, 22 firefighters will begin retraining today. they were among 49 laid off last august because of budget cuts. the firefighters will undergo about six weeks of retraining before they return to work. >> and an update for the layoffs in the san jose police department. the "mercury news" says more than half of the officers laid off already have jobs with other agencies. many picked up by the santa clara, santa cruz and san leandro police departments. some are working for google security. the sjpd is down to 1100 officers, it had about as many as it had in the late 80s despite the fact the population has increased by about 25% since then. >> let's check in with rob mayeda. good morning. >> good morning, scott. a nice start to the morning. not a lot of low clouds inland so we don't have the low clouds which normally could slow your commute especially around 17, mostly of the low clouds offshore. 50s now, a sea breeze will keep our temperatures running be
> almost two dozen san jose firefighters will return to the department today thanks to a grant from fema and the homeland security department, 22 firefighters will begin retraining today. they were among 49 laid off last august because of budget cuts. the firefighters will undergo about six weeks of retraining before they return to work. >> and an update for the layoffs in the san jose police department. the "mercury news" says more than half of the officers laid off already...
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a two-year grant from fema to help the laid-off firefighters. >> i tell you, the organization needs you, we're happy to have you here. >> reporter: so was this 10-year-old, happy because her daddy is a fireman again. and even though is only a two-year federal grant, everyone here hopes that through attrition these firefighters can keep their badges permanently -- and get this -- the other 27 laid-off firefighters got jobs elsewhere. so now san jose is hiring. live in san jose, nbc bay area news. >> thank you very much. >>> new at 5:00, an update on a gruesome story out of the east bay. we now know the name of the woman whose body was found burning in the middle of a quiet street. the alameda county medical examiner's office says she is 21-year-old monica rores alferro of union city. her body was found yesterday on ivan hoe road in oakland's exclusive rock ridge neighborhood. she was most likely killed somewhere else, then taken to the rock -- the neighborhood and lit on fire. officers say the suspects probably chose the neighborhood just because it is secluded and dark during those hour
a two-year grant from fema to help the laid-off firefighters. >> i tell you, the organization needs you, we're happy to have you here. >> reporter: so was this 10-year-old, happy because her daddy is a fireman again. and even though is only a two-year federal grant, everyone here hopes that through attrition these firefighters can keep their badges permanently -- and get this -- the other 27 laid-off firefighters got jobs elsewhere. so now san jose is hiring. live in san jose, nbc...
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thanks to a grant from fema and the department of homeland security, 22 firefighters started training again. they were among 49 firefighters laid off last april because of budget cuts. the firefighters will go through about six weeks of retraining before they can return to work. >>> casey anthony remains in hiding after being released from jail in the wee hours of yesterday morning but she could be back in court soon. a bounty hunter from sacramento says he plans to sue casey anthony and her attorney over expenses he racked up searching for anthony's daughter. less thonard padilla said they that caylee was dead but hill hired him to find her. >> not only did he mislead us, he conned us. he did a good job. he knew where the body was all along and she never had been missing and was never lost. >> a legal expert says padilla's claim would be tricky to prove in court and anthony's lawyer could countersue claiming padilla actually profited by being involved in this high-profile case. >>> poor communication between two state agencies is costing california taxpayers tens of millions of dolla
thanks to a grant from fema and the department of homeland security, 22 firefighters started training again. they were among 49 firefighters laid off last april because of budget cuts. the firefighters will go through about six weeks of retraining before they can return to work. >>> casey anthony remains in hiding after being released from jail in the wee hours of yesterday morning but she could be back in court soon. a bounty hunter from sacramento says he plans to sue casey anthony...